Robert de Sandford

Dayton Shooter Was Failed Goregrind Vocalist, Antifa Member

by Robert de Sandford on August 5, 2019

As the nation mourns the deaths of 9 people killed in the Dayton, Ohio shooting on Sunday more information about 24 year old shooter Connor Betts is surfacing based on his newly unearthed Twitter profile. While mainstream media outlets such as the Daily Beast have falsely reported that Betts had no links to extremist ideology, the account contains tweets that profess the gunman’s support of socialism, Satanism, and “Antifascism.”

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Tags: antifa, Antifacist metal, Antifascism, Antifascist grind, ben umanov, Brooklyn Vegan, Connor Betts, Dayton shooter, dayton shooting, domestic terror, Goregrind, Grindcore, Invisible Oranges, Kerrang, Kim Kelly, left wing, mass murder, Menstrual Munchies, metal, metal journalism, metal media, MetalSucks, neckbeard deathcamp, pornogrind, radicalization, rolling stone, Teen Vogue, terrorism, vice magazine

Communism, Terrorism Celebrated at Brooklyn Festival

by Robert de Sandford on January 30, 2019

A pro-communist festival took place in Brooklyn this past weekend as part of what appears to be a radical effort to indoctrinate heavy metal fans into an extremist political agenda.
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Tags: black flag over brooklyn, communism, Kim Kelly, terroism

Streaming, Record Sales, and Illusion: The State of Music in 2019

by Robert de Sandford on January 17, 2019

If you were active on any social media platforms last month you likely saw the bands you’ve been following celebrate the number of Spotify streams they had in 2019. Just as Myspace plays and Facebook likes were once important metrics used in the industry to determine the success of an artist, the number of plays on a streaming service is now the new standard of how popularity and fan size will be evaluated. But along with these changes in music statistics we must also consider the lessons of the past in how such statistics have been deceitfully manipulated. For there is a dark side to the validity of music streams in 2019 and the very real power held by those who can successfully master their mysteries.
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Tags: A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, abazagorath, abigail williams, Billboard, deception, fake streams, music business, Record Sales, scam, spotify, streaming, Threatin, tidal, youtube

Hardcore Heavyweight Exposes, Humiliates the Blastbeat Network

by Robert de Sandford on January 15, 2019

A storm is brewing against the BlastBeat Network and its founder, Ben Umanov of MetalSucks. While the tabloids of MetalSucks and Metal Injection have long lost journalistic credibility and have become known as little more than an obnoxious joke, they’ve in recent months made a reckless overreach that has sparked a number of vicious uprisings against them. In threatening Behemoth front man Nergal, they provoked a pre-emptive strike that saw legions of Behemoth fans come against them (in a rare move, they refrained from publishing the story). Their direct involvement de-platforming of Elegy Records and other labels has turned Elegy into a martyr and free speech icon, featured in Breitbart News and drawing the ire of many on the radical right. And now they find themselves again on the receiving end of a brutal savaging, this time from a very well known name in hard/grindcore – Todd Jones, who has performed in Nails, Terror, and the outstanding Boston-style hardcore band Knife Fight.

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Tags: advertisor boycott, behemoth, ben umanov, blastbeat network, elegy records, Knife Fight, Metal Blade, MetalSucks, nergal, nuclear blast, Rivers of Nihil, Terror, todd jones

Visions Of Metal In 2019

by Robert de Sandford on January 10, 2019

It was an early day in the winter of 1999 when I awoke from a horrific vision of immense despair. I saw a desolate land, littered with waste and overcrowded with wandering souls in torment. Skeletons danced basking in the moonlight, and the light did not reach the wandering souls. Many were stuck in a swamp polluted with syringes. Others frantically dug through a graveyard searching for a cadaver but finding only a few rotting limbs. Some sought to create a fire but could not create a single spark. A large crowd gathered around the statue of a hammer but could not get it to move. And I saw a well, the waters of which were poisoned by a river of sewage from a foreign land. And above the well it was written THE WELL OF INSPIRATION.

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Tags: Baroness, candlemass, carcass, tomb mold, triptykon, Vltimas

Threatin Exposes Who is Really Killing Metal

by Robert de Sandford on January 4, 2019

Jered Threatin’s masterful illusion has become the biggest “metal” story of 2018. But while his stunning viral campaign has bewildered many, no one has really picked up on the bigger picture of exactly what Threatin was able to pull off.

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Tags: fake, Jared Threatin, jered threatin, journalism, metal journalism, music business, music industry, Threatin

USBM Cornerstone Elegy Records Closes Its Doors

by Robert de Sandford on December 17, 2018

Elegy Records, the second oldest and longest running USBM record label, is closing its doors after 22 years due to social justice warriors lobbying to get them kicked off of credit card processors. The entire webstore is having a 60% off sale resulting in many classic and hard-to-find releases being available for around $4.

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Tags: Apocalypse, ben umanov, censorship, credit card processors, elegy records, fascism, matt goldberg, metalgate, MetalSucks, moribund records, no colours records, paypal, sjws, USBM

Antestor Re-Release of Return of the Black Death Out Today!

by Robert de Sandford on April 20, 2018

Fuck yes! Legendary Norwegian black metal band Antestor have re-released their timeless classic Return of the Black Death via the Nordic Mission label. If you’re too much of a sodomite pussy to know, this album was the best release (and probably only good one) on the famed Cacophonous Records, who gave us the earliest works of Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir- those fucking scumbags! This album was also the precursor to the depressive/suicidal black metal genre that immediately became gay when Xasthur first put on his little makeup kit and started doing blek majick. Yeah, I bet you thought Sortsind and Burzum started that shit-NOPE! It was all a second rate ripoff of Antestor’s sorrow metal!

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Tags: 90s metal, Antestor, Cacophonous Records, cradle of filth, Deus Vult, dimmu borgir, Kongsblod, Neil Harding, Norwegian Black Metal, Return of the Black Death, sorrow metal, Templars, unblack metal

Megadriver – Metalvania (2017)

by Robert de Sandford on April 13, 2018

Few things in life are more masculine than Castlevania. In fact, the New York Times bestselling book The Alphabet of Manliness includes on its short list of “definitive winners in history” the likes of Castlevania 1-4 and Symphony of the Night. Castlevania is also the most metal non-metal piece of Western creativity outside of Lord of the Rings. I mean shit, you’re out crusading and fucking up demons and monsters on behalf of the church, shoving crucifixes up asses and drowning degeneracy in holy water. It’s exactly the kind of shit that true metalhead Hessians and Templars should be doing to SJW the soy metal mutants infesting the underground in incredibly large numbers (who can be open-endedly interpreted to be the grotesque villains of Castlevania lore). DEUS VULT- butcher and savage them all! Even those who think video games are gay (most of them are) can appreciate how based Castlevania is.
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Tags: 8-bit black metal, Deus Vult, heterosexuality, instrumental metal, masculinity, metal, power metal, Templar, the crusades, video games

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